This action requires **" view safety standards, view work equipment and update work positions"** permissions.
Before adding work equipment for a work position, the **work position needs to have safety standard(s) attached**.Work equipment, that can be added for a work position, is determined by attached safety standards.
 When the safety standards for work position have been set, we can attach work equipment from those safety standards. [](https://how-to-erp.dewesoft.com/uploads/images/gallery/2025-07/output.gif)You can set the **quantity** **for each work equipment** (how many pieces/pairs of work equipment employees will receive).
# Create work positionThis action requires the **"create work position"** permission.
A new safety standard can be created through the **"[Create work position](https://placeholder.erp/user-work-positions/create)"** form. [](https://how-to-erp.dewesoft.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-02/4lIimage.png) When creating a new work positions, you need at least the work position's **name**, its **international** **title** and **leave bonus (number of days)**. All other information can be entered later.In order to **assign a work position to an employee**, the work position **must** **have** a **valid** **HR department** connected.
# Update work positionThis action requires the **"update work position"** permission.
[](https://how-to-erp.dewesoft.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-02/4rCimage.png) Through the update form, you can manage: - **Name** and **international title** of the work position: - If the work position does not have a different international title, it can be the same as the name. - **Leave bonus:** - Set the amount of **extra** leave days that employees with this work positions receive when new vacation reports are generated. - **Parent work position:** - Sets, which work position this is a subset of (a work position can be present in multiple departments at the same time). - When this is the case, one parent work position is created, and then work positions for specific departments are derived from it. - **Is parent:** - Set work position as a parent work position. Only work positions with this option **checked** can be selected as parent work positions. - **Mars code:** - Code is of informative nature, should correspond to the work position code within the guidebooks. - **HR department:** - Work positions need to be linked to HR departments in order to be assignable to users. [](https://how-to-erp.dewesoft.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-02/YnRimage.png)A work position can only be assigned on HR profiles, if it is connected to a HR department.
When a work position is moved from one department to another, you need to update the "**To**" date on the old department and add a new one. The new one will then automatically become active.**Active links to departments** must have the **"To"** dates set in the **future.**
**Dates** for different departments **must not intersect**.
# Delete work positionThis action requires the **"delete work position"** permission.
Work positions can be deleted by toggling their checkbox when viewing in table and clicking the **"delete"** button.You **can** only **delete** **work positions** that are **not linked to any HR departments or HR profiles**.
 # Adding authorizations on work positionThis action requires **" view roles and update work positions"** permissions.
Work positions can have directly attached authorizations that are assigned to users when their work position is set.This can be used to **standardize authorizations for** all **employees with** a certain **work position** ad once.
These attached authorizations can be managed in the **"Authorization info"** tab on work position's form.  To attach **"authorizations"** (roles) to a work positions, search and select it from the list of roles. After the roles list is saved, the users should re-login to use newly attached permissions. [](https://how-to-erp.dewesoft.com/uploads/images/gallery/2025-07/mz0output.gif)